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• W2800949781 abstract "Reviewed by: Exporting Revolution: Cuba's Global Solidarity by Margaret Randall Christian Ruth Randall, Margaret. Exporting Revolution: Cuba's Global Solidarity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. Margaret Randall's latest book seeks to complicate our understanding of Cuba's efforts at exporting revolution around the world. Randall wishes to reclaim [End Page 192] this phrase from the negative connotations it has garnered over decades of attacks from the United States against Castro's government. The Cold War image that the concept of exporting revolution has taken on has resulted in misunderstandings and underestimations of the true depth of Cuba's internationalism in the decades since the Cuban Revolution. Randall argues that there are many differences between what Cubans have been accused of doing in their efforts abroad and what they have striven to do. A poet, essayist, and oral historian by trade, Randall has written on the sociocultural life of Cuba extensively. Her penchant for poetry is quite evident in Exporting Revolution, which includes poems by Cuban internationalists and personal comments by Randall on which artists she prefers, which she does not, and how Cuban internationalism is reflected in the art of the revolution. Randall's experience as an oral historian is reflected in the several chapters dedicated to accounts by individual internationalists, Cubans who went overseas, particularly to Africa, during and after the Cold War to lend their specialisms to countries in need. In these chapters, Randall brings an increasing personal touch to the book that emphasizes their tragic, yet heroic, efforts to help those in need even as their own country suffered the deprivations caused by the United States. Randall gives space in her narrative for the artistic work of the destitute but proud Cuban men and women who carried the beauty and power of Cuban culture across the world (p. 110). Exporting Revolution does not follow a strict chronological structure. Chapter by chapter, Randall instead takes the reader through thematic conceptions of Cuba's internationalism. There are sections on Cuban efforts to aid anticolonial revolutions in African nations such as Angola, Ethiopia, and Zambia. These are juxtaposed with sections dedicated to explaining the variety of ways that Cubans have sent medical professionals abroad, advanced non-doping sporting habits, and facilitated the spread of education in neighboring countries. Each chapter offers a snippet of sorts into some aspect of Cuba's role around the world, but each is also disconnected from the others. The greatest weakness of Exporting Revolution is that it seems to lack a clear, or at least a compelling, point other than to sing the praises of the Cuban Revolution. Randall claims that the internationalist efforts of the Cuban people have been positive and extraordinary and seeks to highlight this somewhat hidden story. In this regard, she succeeds. But she succeeds too well. Exporting Revolution reads less like a new point of view on internationalism and more like a [End Page 193] hagiography of the Cuban Revolution, full of overly laudatory language that pushes aside many of the substantive critiques that can, and should, be made of the Castro regime. Token mentions of the problems and rigidity that has damaged the nation's progress replace fruitful discussions Randall ought to have had about the totalitarian nature of the Cuban government and how it affected internationalism. Instead, there are plenty of asides about the United States. Randall makes no effort to hide her disdain for the capitalist West, using her thematic chapters to explain the superiority of the Cuban Revolution's ethics and achievements in the face of, as she constantly reminds the reader, the global animosity of the United States and its allies. To be sure, US policy toward Cuba has been, at best, antiquated since the end of the Cold War and has had greatly negative effects on the quality of life and the socioeconomic progress of the country for decades. But Exporting Revolution spends as much time pointing this out as it does telling new stories of internationalism. What makes this even more problematic is the dearth of research Randall has conducted to substantiate her book. Although she makes no claims that Exporting Revolution is an authoritative work on these subjects, there..." @default.
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